Preface
Introduction: Feminist Reflections on Community	p. 3
A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women	p. 21
A Letter from a Battered Wife	p. 45
The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing	p. 51
Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949	p. 59
The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman	p. 77
Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930	p. 85
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: An Illegal Feminist Abortion Collective - How and Why It Worked	p. 105
The Furies Collective	p. 125
Sisterhood and Friendship as Feminist Models	p. 135
Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project	p. 147
Lesbian Community: Heterodox Congregation	p. 155
Feminism and Communitarianism: Comparing Critiques of Liberalism	p. 161
Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community	p. 187
Non-Contractual Society: A Feminist View	p. 209
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference	p. 233
Feminism, Family, and Community	p. 259
Separating from Heterosexualism	p. 273
Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women	p. 293
Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research	p. 317
Feminism and Democratic Community	p. 341
Feminist Communities and Moral Revolution	p. 367
If Not with Others, How?	p. 399
About the Contributors	p. 407
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